SINGAPORE, Oct 20 (Commodity Online): Global oil prices recovered in Asian trade Wednesday and rose above $80 a barrel mainly after reports of decline in US stockpiles. Light sweet crude for November delivery was seen trading at $80.30 a barrel...
MUMBAI, Oct 20 (Reuters): Indian federal bonds yields and overnight indexed swaps (OIS) were stuck in a tight band Wednesday as domestic inflation and expectations of a rate increase next month weighed, but global cues were supportive. US government securities...
Safiullah Chowdhury, former director of FBCCI and member of executive committee of SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was elected president of Asian Packaging Federation (APF) unanimously.The election to the board of directors of APF, the highest organisation in Asia...
NEW DELHI, Oct 20 (PTI): Zinc futures prices rose by 0.48 per cent to Rs 105.40 per kg today largely in line with fresh positions created by speculators, tracking a firming trend in base metals in global markets.At the Multi...
NEW DELHI, Oct 20 (PTI): Pepper futures prices declined by Rs 94, or 0.50 per cent, to Rs 18,660 per quintal today, owing to slackness in domestic as well as export demand. Expectations of a rise in production following favourable...
Chittagong PortBerthing positionOctober 20, 2010Berth No. NV Cargo LC LA DA Leaving I/DJ/2 Phuong Dong-2 Rice Hochi Uni Ship 29/09 22/10 675J/3 Sider Tino Gi Sing Barwil Qc 04/10 23/10 3761J/4 Lanka Mahapola Log Yang Brothers 06/10 24/10 400J/5 ...
A convoy carrying the UN's top envoy to Iraq has been hit by a roadside bomb, officials say, reports BBC.Ad Melkert was unhurt, the UN said, but unconfirmed reports said a policeman died and three others were injured.Iraqi police said...
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters): The CIA Tuesday acknowledged "missteps" and "shortcomings" that allowed a would-be informant to enter a US base in Afghanistan and blow himself up on December 30, killing seven CIA officers.The mistakes included failing to act on...
The French government has used the security forces to lift blockades by strikers at three fuel depots serving the west of the country, reports BBC.President Nicolas Sarkozy has authorised police to break all remaining blockades at fuel depots.French workers are...
Afghanistan's election authorities have cancelled 1.3m votes in last month's parliamentary election because of fraud or other irregularities, reports BBC.The number of void votes amounts to almost a quarter of the nearly 5.6m ballots cast in the 18 September poll.Turnout...
Toll from Malaysia river boat tragedy rises to 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 20: The death toll from a ferry boat tragedy in the remote interior of Borneo rose to 13 Wednesday as Malaysian police said that seven more bodies had...
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Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, October 20: Once a major tea exporting country enjoying a captive export market, Bangladesh is becoming a tea importer with rise in local consumption and sharp fall in production.The scenario has changed in recent years because of market...
RANGPUR, Oct 20 (BSS): Thousands of farm-laborers, who earlier remained jobless in Kartik even few years ago, are now harvesting the anti-monga short duration paddies in full swing everywhere in Rangpur division. As a result, huge job opportunities have been...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Oct 20: Unauthorised schools have sprouted unchecked in Brahmanbaria district town. Most of these schools, set up in rental houses in the town, are doing brisk business without ensuring quality education. Local administration knows about this, but is...
KHULNA, Oct 20: Trading of securities and stocks in Khulna has been extended rapidly. People of various occupation of this region are interested in this trading. Investors have been increased several times over within two years from this region and...
Our correspondent back from LalmonirhatGAIBANDHA, Oct 20: The agri experts in a function Tuesday urged the river basin extreme poor people to cultivate pumpkin (sweet gourd) on the nearby fallow char land on a large scale to get desired production...
Our Correspondent RANGPUR 20: The Open Market Sale (OMS) rice is being sold in the black markets in Rangpur Sadar, causing utter sufferings to the poor people, sources said. A large number of poor and low income persons rush to...
Our CorrespondentPABNA, Oct 20: A hardened operative of Purba Banglar Communist party (PBCP, ML-Janajuddha) succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday morning hours after a bomb attack on him in Ataikula thana of Pabna.The deceased was identified as Siddique Pramanik (35),...
LAXMIPUR, Oct 20 (UNB): A woman, critically injured in a road accident at Char Jangalia on Laxmipur-Ramgati road on Tuesday evening, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital Wednesday morning.The deceased was identified as Usha Rani Karmakar (55) of Char Jangalia...
M Azizur RahmanThe government has moved afresh to hike the power tariff to contain mounting subsidy as the cost of electricity generation is skyrocketing with the installation of high-cost diesel and furnace-oil run power plants, top officials said Wednesday.The state-owned...
Ahsan Mansur The value of the Bangladesh Taka is legally considered to be determined freely in the interbank market. In the event, however, that the exchange rate has been virtually unchanged at about Tk. 68/69 per US dollar for the...
Shahiduzzaman KhanWith the fast depletion of gas reserves, Bangladesh is likely to face acute energy crisis after 2015 if no new reserve is discovered immediately. The situation has gone to such an extent that all concerned seem to have accepted...
Siddique Islam The central bank has asked four state-owned commercial banks (SCBs) to take effective measures for reduction of non-performing loans (NPL), particularly from the top 20 defaulters, to improve financial health of the banks.The instruction came at a review...
A group of Bangladeshi and Nepali mountaineers have scaled a previously unconquered Himalayan peak and named it after the two South Asian nations, Dhaka's foreign ministry said Wednesday. A 10-member joint team climbed the summit of the 6,257-metre (20,528-foot) mountain...
China has converted into grants around US$ 120 million loan, which they earlier gave to Bangladesh against different projects. "Now we have no liability to repay the loan," said Mashiur Rahman, the Economic Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister, while...
A butcher was killed in an attack by miscreants in his house at city's Pallabi thana on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Shawkat (60), son of Mannan of Section 11, Road 12, 4 Wapda Building camp, Pallabi. Victim's brother...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at many places over Dhaka, Rajshahi, Barishal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Khulna division today (Sunday).Weather may remain...
FE ReportThe construction of Padma bridge would begin from March next year and the World Bank (WB) is set to give $1.5 billion for the project instead of $1.2 billion committed earlier, said finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith Wednesday.Asian...
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